Advanced Instruction Folding for an Object-oriented Processor

Author

Fong, Anthony S. ; Yau, C.H. ; Yijun Liu

Author_Institution

City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, China

fYear

2013

fDate

15-17 April 2013

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

199

Abstract

jHISC is an object-oriented processor with RISC core and architectural support for object instructions. It is a three-addressing machine instead of a stack machine as JVM. With instruction folding techniques, several JVM operations could be translated into fewer or one jHISC three-address machine code, and they execute more effectively. This paper presents an improved folding algorithm for jHISC V4.0 in which the bytecodes are divided into six types and treat the intermediate operation result as P type operations and our instruction folding algorithm is further implemented in hardware level to further reduce the translation burden in software level.

Keywords

Java; multiprocessing systems; program compilers; reduced instruction set computing; JVM; RISC core; advanced instruction folding; architectural support; bytecodes; instruction folding techniques; jHISC; object instructions; object-oriented processor; Benchmark testing; Educational institutions; Hardware; Java; Registers; Software; Software algorithms; object-oriented processor; instruction folding; algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2013 Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2013.136

Filename

6614309